Word Meanings - CONDUCIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Conducive; tending; contributing. Bacon. All his laws are in themselves conducible to the temporal interest of them that observe them. Bentley.

Related words: (words related to CONDUCIBLE)

• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• TEMPORALNESS
  Worldliness. Cotgrave.
• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• CONTRIBUTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• TENDANCE
  1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• CONTRIBUTARY
  1. Contributory. 2. Tributary; contributing. It was situated on the Ganges, at the place where this river received a contributary stream. D'Anville .
• TEMPORALTY
  1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
• INTERESTED
  1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
• CONDUCIVENESS
  The quality of conducing.
• TENDRESSE
  Tender feeling; fondness.
• TENDON
  A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally
• THEMSELVES
  The plural of himself, herself, and itself. See Himself, Herself, Itself.
• INTERESTINGNESS
  The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith.
• TENDRILED; TENDRILLED
  Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey.
• TENDRIL
  A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally. Note: Tendrils may represent the end of a stem, as in the grapevine; an axillary branch, as
• TENDER-HEARTED
  Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7.
• TENDRON
  A tendril. Holland.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• INTENDENT
  See N
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• INTENDIMENT
  Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
• OBTEND
  1. To oppose; to hold out in opposition. Dryden. 2. To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. Dryden
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• ENTEND
  To attend to; to apply one's self to. Chaucer.
• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• PRETENDANT
  A pretender; a claimant.